Celebrating 25 years of Those Lowdown Blues on Phoenix's KJZZ, the harp playing, record producing, club owning and concert promoting host, B...

Bassist Gary Kendall is a fixture of Toronto's roots music community. The six-time Maple Blues Award winner for Bass Player of the Year has...

Garrett Mason's debut, I'm A Man, won the 2005 Juno for Blues Album of the Year. It a nice way for the son of the late Dutch Mason to announ...

In the past ten years, there’s been an explosion of young guitar hotshots all inspired by the era when bluesmen like Magic Sam, Freddie King...

This recording is a major progression for the young Toronto-based artist. Recognized for her powerful, soulful singing and bluesy guitar cho...

Carlos del Junco is one of the world’s leading harmonica players. Since 1993, he’s been quietly issuing a steady moving stream of fantastica...

Too bad Paul Reddick is a bluesman. Otherwise, he’d be receiving the same attention that Canadian songsmiths like Justin Rutledge and Kathle...

This Toronto-based songstress surprised many with her strong 2006 debut, Not A Straight Line. That recording revealed Levasseur’s musical he...

Recorded in 2007 on the south side, this little gem of a CD (a DVD is also available) is proof of how powerful the Chicago blues style can b...

This CD captures the spirit of ’50s Memphis and Chicago blues combo recordings nicely. Guitarist Chris James is a credible vocalist with a p...

Big Dave McLean really is big, or at least very tall. His voice is big, about the size of the Saskatchewan horizon, where he was born in 195...

At 92 years old, Mississippi born Honeyboy Edwards is one of the last remaining musicians with a direct link to the earliest days of recorde...

With his second CD for Electro-Fi Records, Toronto, ON’s Julian Fauth has created a blues masterwork. He’s a two-fisted barrelhouse piano pl...

Roman Carter was born in the first half of the last century in Alabama. Like so many, he sang gospel as a child and later with two siblings...

From Toronto, ON, Jerome Godboo is a singer and outstanding harp player. In a 20-plus-year career, he’s recorded and toured with the Phantom...

Sam Carr is a legendary Delta blues drummer, having recorded with everyone from Sonny Boy Williamson II to Buddy Guy and playing on many Fat...

Hearing this CD brings two things to mind. One: are there any better interpreters of traditional Chicago-style harmonica blues alive today?...

Riley is a Mississippi born vocalist/guitarist who after a performing hiatus has been active the last ten years, working with the late John...

From New Brunswick, Neilsen’s sophomore recording is a major step up from his 2005 debut. Its strengths — unrushed, introspective performanc...

In the ’50s, no bluesman was more influential than Jimmy Reed to a generation of young white rock’n’rollers who would attempt to perform the...